Do you ever have a day where you just don’t want to do anything? Just laze around and do absolutely nothing? Nothing as in: facebook doesn’t seem remotely interesting, no website online sparks a desire to check it out, wandering around outside seems like too much work, cleaning feels like the last thing you want to do, nothing sounds good to watch on tv, laundry can wait until tomorrow, getting a few things at the corner fruit stand feels like too far to walk and taking a shower requires too much energy. I’m having one of those days.
I have things I need to do, though: get fruit from to corner fruit stand, get juice from the corner market, finish the laundry I started yesterday, wash the dishes, clean up the disaster I created when baking the cake yesterday, go to the refugee school to teach my lesson, shower before going to the school, write a blog showing off my apartment (i keep telling my mom I’m going to do that), make my bed, make Troy’s bed, watch Revenge (the season finale was last night), go to the atm and get money for rent (Troy’s bank wouldn’t let him do an online transfer yesterday, so we have to pay rent when our realtor comes over this afternoon), bake bread for dinner, start making dinner at 4, research more soups to make (Troy is on a soft foods only diet (without dairy products) until he gets better, which doesn’t seem to be happening very quickly) and my physical therapy exercises.
This morning, I got up and made breakfast for Troy and went to the gym. While I was at the gym, I just started feeling blah, so I came back home after doing the elliptical and four of my weight machines. I normally do seven, but my stomach is upset and I just don’t have any energy. I’ve been feeling off since Friday and I thought it was because I was having some kind of allergic reaction to a plant one of the girls here gave me. I’ve been sneezing and stuffed up with my eyes being swollen and can’t determine whether it’s because of the plant or something else in the house (it could also be the weird water spot on my bedroom wall that I bleached last week). The plant is the only new thing and it showed up about the same time this stuff started (before I bleached the spot on my wall). I put it outside the front door yesterday and the sneezing has stopped for the most part, but my nose is still runny and my right eye is still swollen. When I went to bed, I felt mostly fine, but woke up with my eyes swollen a little and my nose stuffed up. I had the plant in my bedroom by an open window on Saturday, so that’s why I can’t decide if it was my bleaching the spot on the wall or the powdery stuff on the plant that is causing my body to go crazy. I had the plant by my open window and it was windy, so that stuff is probably everywhere in my bedroom now. Ugh. I guess that means I should scrub down my bedroom today. But I really don’t want to.
Maybe I SHOULD cancel my teaching session today. My right eye is all red and swollen and both eyes keep watering like crazy. My stomach started feeling off while I was working out and I ache. Sunday I kept going back and forth between burning up and freezing. Poor Troy. We were trying to watch a movie and I kept asking for cold water bottles to cool my body down and then hiding under some blankets because I was freezing. I guess I just need to take a day and do nothing. Yesterday I didn’t want to do anything, but it was our anniversary, so I went to the store to get some groceries and decorations.
Today, now that I’ve called to let the school know I won’t be there, I think I’m going to go back to sleep for a little bit. On the couch. lol. I’ll have to scrub my bedroom before sleeping in there again to see if it really is the powder from the plant that is messing with my nose and eyes. But until I do so, I’m going to sleep on the couch. And see if I can come up with some energy to go do anything. I’m tired of being sick all the time.
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